I’ve talked to several reporters, and quite a few news outlets have covered the story. Ars Technica wasn’t one of the ones that reached out to me, but I especially thought this piece from them was interesting (since taken down – here’s the archive link). They had some nice quotes from my blog post explaining what was going on. The problem is that these quotes were not written by me, never existed, and appear to be AI hallucinations themselves.
Super disappointing for Arstechnica here.
Like, how does that even happen?
The Arstechnica article with false quotes did, yes.
They’re investigating as well apparently, with perhaps a response due on Tuesday due to the holiday - but the comment thread is a little painful to read where a moderator had to apologize because they didn’t comprehend what the problem was at first…
Thanks for the context